The Book, The Kite Runner, By Khaled Hosseini, is a historical fiction novel that is a biography of Amir. The Book follows Amir from a young age to his thirties. It also shows his relationships with other characters as he moves from place to place avoiding the Russian soldiers. It tells about Amir`s struggle to be accepted by his father and to understand why people treat people the way they do and be racist. Throughout the book, Amir faces many different characters that he has different responses to.

    Amir’s relationship with Hassan is very interesting because Amir treats Hassan differently in different situations. For example, during the rape, he is cowardly and he doesnt stand up for Hassan and he doesn't even associate with him after it. When Amir is an adult, he treats Hassan like they were best friends (in a sense, they were when they were kids. Amir had too much pride to admit it). I think Amir feels bad that he treated Hassan so badly as a child and even made it so he had to leave there, so he tries really hard to redeem himself. Amir feels that he has to feel the pain Hassan felt to fully feel forgiven for his crime against Hassan. Amir is so driven to feel like he has paid his debt to Hassan, that he travels to Afghanistan to save his son from a group of Taliban. The true redemption happens when Amir gets beat up almost to the death by Assef, the same person who raped Hassan. The author shows irony when Hassan’s son, Sohrab saves Amir from his close to death battle with Assef.  This is ironic because Amir is saved once again by Sohrab, which in my opinion is like a shy continuation of Hassan. I think the author is trying to say that when ever Amir is in trouble some form of Hassan will save him in a verbal conflict or even a physical conflict.